A judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration from putting over 2,000 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave, part of a gambit to shut down the aid agency—the latest in a slew of legal actions as Democrats and others fight President Donald Trump and cost-cutter czar Elon Musk in court.

A judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's plan to place 2,200 employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on paid leave, hours before it was due to happen. Judge Carl Nichols said he would issue a "very limited" temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit filed by unions,

Judge Carl Nichols blocked Donald Trump and Elon Musk's attempted USAID shutdown days after the American Foreign Service Association filed a lawsuit.

One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.

A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor's systems, an initial setback for the government employee unions resisting his efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy.